Known for Acting
Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress. She was best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. The next year, she appeared in You're a Big Boy Now as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elizabeth Hartman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
December 23, 1943
Died
June 10, 1987 (age 43)
Birthplace
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Filmography
12 films, 4 shows


The Secret of NIMH
1982 · 1h 23m · US
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.


Full Moon High
1981 · 1h 35m · US
After a trip to Romania, popular high school quarterback Tony Walker becomes a werewolf, and struggles to come to terms with his hirsute situation.


A Little Bit Like Murder
1973 · 1h 13m · US
A malevolent old house is pervaded by evil spirits who inflict harm upon the occupants. Their latest victim is a woman who is overcome with hatred for her family.


Walking Tall
1973 · 2h 5m · US
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.


In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 · 1h 14m
In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with union waivers, a $220,000 budget and even logistical help from the state’s National Guard.


The Beguiled
1971 · 1h 45m · US
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.


The Fixer
1968 · 2h 12m · US
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kyiv. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967 · 1h 59m · US
Unfinished version of the immortal story with Jason Robards in the lead role, who was replaced by Jack Palance and the resultant film was released one year later as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1967).


You're a Big Boy Now
1966 · 1h 37m · US
Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full of eccentric landlords, meddling parents, and romantic missteps. Infatuated with a glamorous but manipulative go-go dancer, he learns through heartbreak—and the kindness of a steadfast admirer—what growing up really means.


The Group
1966 · 2h 32m · US
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.


A Patch of Blue
1965 · 1h 45m · US
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.


A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
1965 · 7m · US
Describes how Elizabeth Hartman was auditioned and chosen for the part of Selina in "A Patch of Blue."